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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Accessibility Annotation(also: A-Annotation, Accessibility Metadata)
External metadata added to a web page to describe its visual layout structure, content groupings, and element roles for the purpose of improving accessibility without modifying the original page. Accessibility annotations typically identify visually distinct groups on a page,…
Annotation-based Transcoding(also: Annotation-driven Transcoding, External Annotation)
Annotation-based transcoding is a web accessibility technique in which a third party (not the site owner) authors a separate metadata file — the 'annotation' — that describes how to restructure or re-label a web page for screen reader users, and a transcoding proxy or browser…

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